Laurel Canyon Watercolor

I just arrived back from a family reunion in Los Angeles. I've always been intrigued by the funky little streets and houses in the area of Laurel Canyon. Most of the canyon houses were built as weekend cottages in the 20's and 30's. The streets are very narrow, windy and twisty in parts and you sometimes have to pull over to let a vehicle coming in the opposite direction pass. They don't appear to have ever been repaved.

I looked up Laurel Canyon on Wikipedia and according to their info "Laurel Canyon has been mentioned in many films and is the subject of a book, Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood. " Many famous people have lived there, including Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, Errol Flynn, Elliott Cass and George Clooney amongst others. It's a fascinating neighborhood with lots of history. It's dotted with rows of funky mailboxes in different states of deterioration, precariously propped up on wooden posts, at the end of an unpaved pathway or street. The one I painted here was featured in the movie "Laurel Canyon."